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"Economic Survey of the United States 2008: Health Care Reform" by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, published in December 2008, said that: [70] Tax benefits of employer-based insurances should be abolished. The resulting tax revenues should be used to subsidize the purchase of insurance by individuals.
[136] [137] Of each dollar spent on healthcare in the US, 31% goes to hospital care, 21% goes to physician/clinical services, 10% to pharmaceuticals, 4% to dental, 6% to nursing homes and 3% to home healthcare, 3% for other retail products, 3% for government public health activities, 7% to administrative costs, 7% to investment, and 6% to other ...
A 2001 article in the public health journal Health Affairs studied fifty years of American public opinion of various health care plans and concluded that, while there appears to be general support of a "national health care plan," poll respondents "remain satisfied with their current medical arrangements, do not trust the federal government to ...
Dawley, Katy. "Perspectives on the past, view of the present: relationship between nurse-midwifery and nursing in the United States." Nursing Clinics of North America (2002) 37#4 pp: 747–755. Fairman, Julie and Joan E. Lynaugh. Critical Care Nursing: A History (2000) excerpt and text search; Hine, Darlene Clark.
2014 - Sonendo, a medical technology company based in Laguna Hills, California, introduces the GentleWave system in the United States for root canal treatments. 2016 – The first ever artificial pancreas was created; 2019 – 3D-print heart from human patient's cells. 2020 – First vaccine for COVID-19. 2022 – The complete human genome is ...
The Corps contributes to ground-breaking health initiatives, included the 2014 Surgeon General's Report that highlighted 50 years of progress in tobacco control and prevention, presented new data on the health consequences of tobacco use, and detailed initiatives that can end the tobacco epidemic in the United States.
The United States healthcare system is currently ranked dead last when compared to other high-income countries, according to a new report. The report — published Sept. 19 by independent research ...
A History of Medicine in the United States (1931) Parmet, Wendy E. "Health Care and the Constitution: Public Health and the Role of the State in the Framing Era," 20 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 267–335, 285-302 (Winter, 1992) online version; Reiss, Oscar. Medicine in Colonial America (2000) Reiss, Oscar.